by Candice Millard, 2011, Vintage Candice Millard has done a very good job portraying the life and death of President James Garfield. I knew very little about Garfield and was very surprised to find out what an outstanding human being … Continue reading →
(, by Anthony Horowitz, 2028, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, HarperAudio The book is an entirely innovative approach to a mystery novel. The author, Anthony Horowitz, inserts a fictional character to accompany a crime investigator solving a murder. That fictional … Continue reading →
by David Grann, 2023, Doubleday, New York This is the story of the Wager, a ship that was shipwrecked on the coast of Chile during the War of Jenkin’s Ear between England and Spain in 1740. The ship was part … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 7, by Louise Penny, 2011, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2011, Macmillan Audio The book centers around the murder of a woman in a garden during a party. The investigation reveals that … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 6 by Louise Penny, 2010, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2010, Macmillan Audio I was really surprised by this book as I had pretty much trashed Book 5, The Brutal Telling, in … Continue reading →
by Adam Hochschild, 1998, Audiobook on cassette tapes narrated by Geoffrey Howard released in 2010, Books on Tape, Random House Audio This book is an indictment of the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold of Belgium. It recounts the … Continue reading →
by Bonnie Garmus 2022, Doubleday, New York This is a story about a woman in the 1950’s who has a passion for science and wants to conduct research in chemistry. Unfortunately, she runs into many challenges, the primary one being … Continue reading →
by Louise Penny, 2005, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2014, Macmillan Audio This is the first of Louise Penny’s mysteries with Inspector Armand Gamache in the Quebec town of Three Pines. There is an intricate plot revolving around … Continue reading →
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2003, Audiobook narrated by Lisette Lecat, Recorded Books This novel is the first in a series of books about a lady who started a detective agency in Botswana. Since we traveled to Africa this last … Continue reading →
by Alex Michalides, 2021, Kindle Edition, Caladon Books I enjoyed reading this book very much. Like his previous book, The Silent Patient, Michaelides kept me guessing throughout the book, and, in the end I guessed wrong. He really does know … Continue reading →